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Subject: The Origin of Halo

Ever wonder what Halo looked like before we had the niceties and power of the Xbox? Ever wonder what the Halo project started life as? Wonder no longer - it's all here for everyone to be amazed and occasionally embarrassed by...

  • 04.09.2004 3:31 PM PDT

Goal: To seek the breast of darkness, and be suckled by the night.

J00 LIE!!11!

  • 04.09.2004 5:18 PM PDT

Goal: To seek the breast of darkness, and be suckled by the night.

Holy crap - j00 don't lie. I'm missing real news while I'm screwing around in here! AAAAAAA

  • 04.09.2004 5:20 PM PDT
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LOL. this is one of Monday's stories. Look around, there's lots to see and read.

  • 04.09.2004 5:39 PM PDT
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sounds good

  • 04.12.2004 9:02 PM PDT
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Very nice mate, very interesting for those who came in late. Can i say that here? Anyway, a question. I notice early chief has gold visor, which became current chief with gold visor, how come all the screens of H2 i see have him in a darker, almost charcoal one? He seems to lose a bit of mystique. If i was up against the covenant alone, i'd wanna put the fear of god into them as much as possible, and looking impenetrable and scary kinda helps...

  • 04.13.2004 2:01 AM PDT

His faceplate is definitely a shiny, gold/bronze in H2. Some of the dynamic light and reflection mapping might make it look dark at times.

  • 04.13.2004 2:19 AM PDT
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I was wondering about that nice computer render at the top of this page. It looks like the 'scroll machine' along the bottom right of the webpage. Any similarities? And what are we looking at in the render? Is it in HALO 2?

  • 04.13.2004 2:31 AM PDT
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Mmm, shiny things. I recently sold my soul for a little eye-candy.

When Halo 2 comes out, I will be able to die happy for having seen the bump-mapping and shiny things. Always remember, Frankie, encourage the team to put more bump maps into the game.

Don't take "Holy crap, man, I already have 578 bumps on this little street light" for an answer. That's right. I want MORE BUMPS.

--MikeMan

  • 04.13.2004 4:43 AM PDT
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When Halo 2 comes out, I will be able to die happy for having seen the bump-mapping and shiny things. Always remember, Frankie, encourage the team to put more bump maps into the game.

Mike's right. I think what we all want to see is an army of wrinkled old men to fight against, each of them armed to the teeth with basketballs and wiffle bats. Sure, they might not put up much of a fight, but imagine how sweet they'll look with dynamic shadows. *drools*

Seriously though, great work on the article, and keep up the good work :D

Is it just me, or do the old elites look just like frogs?

  • 04.13.2004 6:13 AM PDT
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I wonder if Bungie will release some of that content for mod makers of HaloPC. It would rock to have some of there hard work that was discarded due to time constraints make its way back in for MP mods. That is once the editing kit for HaloPC get s released.

  • 04.13.2004 9:39 AM PDT
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i Hope they release this old 3ps halo after halo 2. Even a demo would be nice. i wana play it so badly with all the suck cars and -blam!-. them visuals are ok for the time,
buonos deos cockbites!

  • 04.13.2004 10:50 AM PDT
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Yikes! It sounds like some of Halos brilliance was accidental. It almost sounds like the game would have been kind of wack if everthing had been included as originally planned. Please tell me there won't be dinosaurs in Halo 2.

  • 04.13.2004 1:09 PM PDT
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very wise words.

  • 04.13.2004 1:21 PM PDT
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In one of those screenshots. Master Chief is holding a Plasma sword.

Evidence of using Plasma sabers for Halo 2?

Awesome report btw.

  • 04.13.2004 2:56 PM PDT
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speaking of shiny visors and such....what ever happended to the master chief's reflection mapped visor? im not complaining at all, im happy with the way the chief looks right now...i was just wondering what ever happened from the old H2 trailer w/ the MC jumping out of the ship, to the e3 2003 trailer....you still think they will use reflection mapping for the MC's visor in the final game?

  • 04.13.2004 7:53 PM PDT
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what about the Marathon Trilogy?!?!?!!

sooo much of the story of Halo is based on that

  • 04.13.2004 8:35 PM PDT
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errr...im not allowed to say that Halo is related to Marathon am I...

  • 04.13.2004 9:07 PM PDT
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Posted by: UltimatumX
In one of those screenshots. Master Chief is holding a Plasma sword.

Evidence of using Plasma sabers for Halo 2?


In one of the screenshots, the game is a third person RTS. Evidence of that being in Halo 2? No.

Posted by: Jade 8704
speaking of shiny visors and such....what ever happended to the master chief's reflection mapped visor? im not complaining at all, im happy with the way the chief looks right now...i was just wondering what ever happened from the old H2 trailer w/ the MC jumping out of the ship, to the e3 2003 trailer....you still think they will use reflection mapping for the MC's visor in the final game?


They thought it would look cool (it did, didn't it?) to have that reflection on the MC's visor when he was looking at Earth from space, so they artificially added it in post production. It would take far too much processing power to have that in actual gameplay. It will not be in Halo 2.

Posted by: spnkr44
what about the Marathon Trilogy?!?!?!!

sooo much of the story of Halo is based on that


Go here: http://halosm.bungie.org/story/halothon.html.

Peruse the list of allusions to Marathon in Halo. It is mostly a collection of loose tongue-in-cheek references. To this day many people try to find deep connections, but they are seperate stories written by the same team: that is just about the extent of the similarities. Halo is hardly "based on" the Marathon trilogy.

  • 04.14.2004 12:03 PM PDT

Don't get me started on Plasma swords...I hate them in legendary...one hit, -BLAM!- your dead...

  • 04.14.2004 3:32 PM PDT
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I love all this news, I hope it keeps up like, every day.

  • 04.14.2004 5:44 PM PDT
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Me too. Halo came a long way.

Say....is that Halo: Revolutions (is that what its called?) being sold now-a-days? I would like to add it to my Halo collection.

  • 04.14.2004 5:54 PM PDT
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Man, having a living species on HALO would have messed up alot of the "deep" story line ( know what I mean?) If you read some of the stuff on like "Halo's Story" and stuff on the old bungie.net you would know what I mean. Dunno if the link still in the new bungie.net or not. Makes me wonder if we just think to hard and deep into the story and if the makers didn't even mean for it to be that deep.

  • 04.14.2004 6:31 PM PDT
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Posted by: CENOBITE
I was wondering about that nice computer render at the top of this page. It looks like the 'scroll machine' along the bottom right of the webpage. Any similarities? And what are we looking at in the render? Is it in HALO 2?


Yea, I noticed that too i was kind of wondering about that myself. Looks cool dont it? I doubt it has something to do with HALO 2, but who knows. Man, i wish some bungie people could answer our questions!!

  • 04.14.2004 6:37 PM PDT
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Wasn't it Munkie Nutz not, monkey nuts?

Damn, i almost got that t-shirt too!

  • 04.15.2004 4:54 PM PDT

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